How to update Facebook with your cell phone

This article discusses fun ways to update your face book page with your cell phone. This is can be helpful for people with no home internet connection except through their cell phone.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Facebook Account
• Mobile phone with text messaging and camera

1. 
    
   m.facebook.com

   You need to sign up for facebook mobile. This involves registering your phone number with face book. A text message will be sent to your phone with a registration code. After you enter the code at facebook, you are good to go. If you don't have a home Internet connection you can do this on your phones Internet connection, or through public Internet access (library, web café, or office)

2. 
    
   updating status

   Update your status on Facebook by sending an SMS (text message) to FBOOK or 32665. Poke your friends by texting "poke Firstname Lastname" to FBOOK. Write on their wall by texting "wall firstname lastname blah blah"

3. Add photos and videos by sending them [e-mail] from your phone. You can also send pictures to [e-mail] and videos to [e-mail]

4. You can look at your facebook page while web surfing on your phone at m.facebook.com

5. Go to you facebook mobile setting to control the information that will be sent your cell phone. You can get updates on all your facebook friends by SMS text messages (or not!). You can even set up a sleep schedule to suspend alerts at night (or perhaps working?)

Tips & Warnings

• practice uploading pictures and video to work the bugs out.
• STANDARD MESSAGE RATES APPLY. Facebook mobile is free but your cell phone services are not.
• VIDEOS HAVE SOUND. think about what you are saying when you record a video because the videographer is the one closest to the microphone!

Resources

• Facebook

[BarryWaite]

on 1/3/2009 Great article

[BarryWaite]

on 1/3/2009 Great article!

[cinnamongirl]

on 12/28/2008 STANDARD MESSAGE RATES APPLY. Facebook mobile is free but your cell phone services are not.

Facebook charges nothing for this service. Whatever your cell phone usually charges for a text message would apply.

[Glencap]

on 11/15/2008 Thank you for a well-written article. These are very good instructions.

[pianistic]

on 11/15/2008 Great!